On 04/03/2014 09:49 AM, jdd pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

Hello,

I just noticed than filezilla in it's permission editing screen shows both the symbolic (rwx) and the octal (777) values of permissions.

I always have many problems converting symbols to numbers, so I would *love* to have dolphin do the same, let only as pedagogical way to learn

is that possible? thanks jdd

******************** Not sure how the formatting will look in your mail program. ******************** --4 (r) | ---2 (w) | | ---1 (x) | | | x x x To set the read (r) attribute use the number 4 To set the write (w) attribute use the number 2 To set the execute (x) attribute use the number 1 When setting more than one attribute add the numbers together. Example: To set r-x use number 5 (4 for the r + 1 for the x) the w is left unset. Now, there are always three sets of attributes to set, the first set is for the owner, the second set is for the group and the last is for the world. Hence will will always be setting three sets of attributes and is why you will see numbers like 775 or 550. A good place for more information is man (1) chmod. Hope this will clear some of the mud in front of you -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org